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It's one of the most wide open Le Mans in recent years, and we don't know how the ACO has sized everyone up, welcome to our Le Mans 24 Hours Preview for 2026 with Dre Harrison hosting alongside Daily Sportscar's own RJ O'Connell.
It's a comprehensive nearly 100 minute preview featuring chat about the LMGT3 class, and who could take glory there, as well as a lengthy reaction to the ACO now banning public discourse about the Balance of Performance rules that dictate manufacteurs in the series. Will BMW and Corvette fight again? Can Ferrari give Dre a rare class win in the prediction stakes as Lilou Wadoux attempts to make history?
How about the stacked LMP2 class, with Doriane Pin heading back to Le Mans after F1 Academy success? Where will Porsche factory drivers Kevin Estre and Julien Andlauer end up? And will Inter Europol and Panis Racing collide again?
And finally, a comprehensive look at every factory runner in the field's Hypercar class as 18 cars battle for win, as Alpine says goodbye, we say hello to Genesis and ponder whether this is the last attempt of the era for Toyota Racing's core. Is Ferrari playing the sandbag game again?

IndyCar's morning after the night before as Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell review their Streets of Detroit round, with a bonus bit of chat about IMSA's Detroit Sprint Race the day before.
Given Detroit is their home ground, it was a rough day for Chevy as Alex Palou took his third pole position in a row, and despite some swings and roundabouts for strategy, held off Kyle Kirkwood at the end of the race to take his fourth win of 2026, and extending his Championship lead to 62 points. But how we got there involved another tough set of crashes for ECR, Santino Ferrucci in the wars again, and more clumsy driving around a really unforgiving layout.
Also included, a deep dive on IndyCar's new caution rules being put to the test, how a more in jured Josef Newgarden than we thought was actively claiming to be benched for the race, and some industrial sized beef between former teammates Scott McLaughlin and Will Power, that somehow wasn't penalised. Where did Dre put that beehive?

It's the moment we'd all been waiting for in the 2026 title battle - BEEF between the leading men at Mercedes as F1 headed to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. 
And what a moment it was, Kimi tries to hang it around the outside of Russell in the Sprint Race, and Russell runs Kimi over the Turn 2 grass to keep his place for the win. And this begins the awkward conversations about racecraft, rules of engagement and how Mercedes drivers want to race each other. 
Antonelli won the battle mind you, with Russell's battery failure in the GP meaning he now sits 43 points behind Antonelli in the Championship. Is Russell already in severe trouble?
Also discussed in an ice cold GP - Lewis Hamilton's best weekend in red as he finished P2 ahead of Max Verstappen's Red Bull, Hadjar picking up 40 seconds of penalties and still finishing 5th, and Franco Colapinto's best result for Alpine too. All that and more on another M101!

A tough week for us all in Motorsport. Sadly, the same night we completed our Indy 500 Preview Podcast, we got the devastating news that NASCAR's winningest driver Kyle Busch had suddenly passed away due to complications from Sepsis at the age of just 41. It was a sombre weekend with heartbreaking tributes to him across Motorsport. The boys too pay tribute to an incredible legacy and a driver who understood that racing was about telling a story.
Then they review the 110th Indy 500 as Felix Rosenqvist took advantage of a changing weather schedule, a bold startegy, some monster fuel saving, and a brilliant final showdown with teammate Marcus Armstrong and David Malukas to take ultimate glory in what was the closest and maybe greatest Indy 500 of them all.

And back-to-back days with a Podcast, huzzah! Dre, Cam and RJ are joined by Frontstretch.com's Christopher DeHarde to talk about the 110th Running of the Indy 500 tomorrow, the story so far, and preview the grid before the world's biggest race.
It was a dramatic week of prep for quali in a different way - With Bump Day not on the table due to exactly 33 entrants, we had a change of format, with an extra elimination round for Sunday as only Positions 1-9 being locked into the Fast 12, and an extra elimination round for positons 10-15. But with rain destroying Saturday's running, we went to single-run eliminations and a standard Fast 12 and 6 round.
It looked like Felixz Rosenqvist had Qualifying in the bag, but a poor final run opened the door for a trimmed-out Alex Palou to take his second Indy 500 pole position and a $100,000 bonus. 
And on top of that - Alex Rossi, Pato O'Ward and Romain Grosjean had a huge crash on Monday practice, with Rossi breaking his ankle, but still racing on Sunday. The gang break it all down here!